And CB has of coarse looked at scholarly sources on this.And read up on the 2-3 million killed in the Congo in the 90's, 800,000 in Rwanda, slaughter in Algeria, http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/jun2001/alge-j30.shtml http://www.google.com/search?q=estimated+deaths+20th+century+wars Clodfelter, Michael Warfare and Armed Conflict: A Statistical Reference to Casualty and Other Figures, 1618-1991 Clodfelter Vietnam in Military Statistics (1995) Correlates of War Project at the University of Michigan [http://www.correlatesofwar.org/]: Online summaries for inter-, extra- and intra-state wars after 1816. http://www.correlatesofwar.org/cow2%20data/WarData/InterState/Inter-State%20War%20Format%20(V%203-0).htm http://www.correlatesofwar.org/cow2%20data/WarData/InterState/Inter-State%20Wars%20(V%203-0).htm Singer, J. David, and Melvin Small (1972). The Wages of War, 1816-1965: A Statistical Handbook. New York: John Wiley. Small, Melvin, and J. David Singer (1982). Resort to Arms: International and Civil Wars, 1816-1980. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications. Harff, Barbara & Gurr, Ted Robert: "Toward an Empirical Theory of Genocides and Politicides", 32 International Studies Quarterly 359 (1988). Has a table of 44 genocides committed between 1945 and 1988. Dan Smith, The State of War and Peace Atlas (1997) (previous editions, co-edited by Trotskyist Michael Kidron. CB won't like it.)
-- Michael Pugliese